1 augustus 2011

Drawing Lab Monday (1)

Draw as many cats as you like in about ten minutes. The catch: lay in your bed, put the paper on your pillow and use a black fineliner. No tables allowed! Or any other solid surface, for that matter.

Use your favorites to make some extra nice cats.

I cheated. I admit it. I didn't get into bed (because the munchkin wanted to join, a three year old with indelible markers combined with my white sheets: not in a million years!) but I sat at the dining room table with a pillow under my paper. Same difference. Anyhow.

I started drawing cats and I realised how incredibly hard that is! Honestly, my knowledge of cat-anatomy is dreadfull. So after three attempts that I dare not show you, I decided to let the idea of drawing cats realistically go. *sigh*

This is what I finally came up with.

To my surprise, there were some that I really liked! So I tried some with color pencil...

That didn't do it for me. So I tried something else.

I seriously loved this one! I think I'll make it into something... Don't know yet what it will be, but I didn't expect to like it this much.

Meanwhile, the munchkin made this one. And I was humbled on the spot.

Next weeks assignment: take a picture of a giraffe and draw it on a sheet of paper, not looking at the sheet! Just let your pencil follow your eyes... Hmmmm. Wonder how I'll feel showing that trainwreck to you...